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Open Systems For Europe

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Tony Elliman

    1. Brunel University, UK

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  2. Colston Sanger

    1. Gid Ltd, UK

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Part of the book series: UNICOM Applied Information Technology Reports (UNICOM, volume 7)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Keynote Papers from Governmental Agencies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Guidelines for an Informatics Architecture

      • W. de Backer
      Pages 3-15

    3. UK Government Programmes to Encourage Open Systems

      • W. Greaves
      Pages 17-35

    4. Towards a European Gosip

      • L. Caffrey
      Pages 37-43

  4. User Case Studies of Open Systems and Interworking

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Why Open Systems - A Management Perspective

      • C. V. Calder
      Pages 103-112

    3. Open Systems Policies in the NHS

      • P. J. Bishop
      Pages 113-121

    4. Implementation of a Value-Added Network in an Open Systems Market Environment

      • M. Anstee
      Pages 123-131

    5. Electronic Data Interchange: British Coal and the Edict System

      • W. L. Bedford
      Pages 133-146

  5. Other Issues in Open Systems Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. Planning for Information Resources Centres

      • C. Lazou
      Pages 149-160

    3. Standards for Scientific Languages and Library Modules

      • S. Hammarling
      Pages 161-164

    4. Development and Application of Software Tools to Verify Standards

      • A. T. Twigger
      Pages 165-175

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 177-186
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Open Systems for Europe AD. Elliman, C. Sanger Open Systems for Europe combines two important and topical themes. First, Open Systems - the development of vendor-independent means to link and interwork with applications across a range of different systems. Secondly, the formation of a single European market after 1992 with its attendant opening up of public purchasing and the removal of the remaining obstacles to the free movement of products, people and services between the member states of the European Community. What unites these two themes is the issue of standards. As Walter de Backer, Director of Informatics of the Commission of the European Communities ( CEC) says in his keynote paper [Ch. 1J, more and more organisations are beginning to realise that an IT strategy based on standards is feasible, econo­ mic and necessary. It is feasible, if not immediately, then certainly through an evolutionary path phased over a number of years; it is economic because the costs associated with interface changes and conversions can be avoided, if not eliminated totally; and it is necessary if organisations are to communicate and interwork effectively. Moreover, the restructuring of Europe into a single market has already prompted a realignment of corporate interests - existing groups are breaking up and forming new, pan-European conglomerates.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Brunel University, UK

    Tony Elliman

  • Gid Ltd, UK

    Colston Sanger

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Open Systems For Europe

  • Editors: Tony Elliman, Colston Sanger

  • Series Title: UNICOM Applied Information Technology Reports

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3073-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-412-37850-8Published: 01 January 1991

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-3073-6Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 186

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Operations Management

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